Marie-Louise Bresson, the third-oldest living person in France, celebrated her 113th birthday
The Gerontology Research Group (GRG) is pleased to announce that Mrs. Marie-Louise Bresson (née Pressac), the third-oldest living person in France, has celebrated her 113th birthday on 15 March 2026 in Montréal, Aude, Occitania, France.
Marie-Louise Bresson was born as Marie-Louise Herbulot in Mascara, Mascara Province, French Algeria (now Algeria), on 15 March 1913. She attended school in the coastal city of Oran. She became a teacher at the age of 20, and her first class was one with 40 students. Her main subjects were maths, spelling, history, and geography. She learned to read and write in Arabic but did not speak it.
In 1962, after the end of the Algerian War, Bresson emigrated with her parents to France, settling first in Toulouse, before spending a year in Perpignan. She looked after her mother, Lina, who lived to be 100 years old. In her later years, she enjoyed crocheting, embroidery, knitting, and painting. She had an operation to remove cataracts at the age of 90, and she stated that it was her first blood test in her life.
Bresson fractured her femur at the age of 104 and moved into a nursing home shortly thereafter. As a supercentenarian, she is reported to be in good health, still completing crosswords and watching quiz shows on television. She reads frequently, romance novels in particular, without glasses. Her sister was still living as of 2022 at the age of 99.
On 19 December 2024, following the death of 112-year-old Estelle Zimmermann of Gard, Bresson became the oldest known living person in Occitania.
Marie-Louise Bresson currently lives in Montréal, Aude, Occitania, France, at the age of 113. She is currently the third-oldest living person in France, after Madeleine Dellamonica of Île-de-France and Marcelle Demorgny of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, who are also 113.
Happy 113th birthday to Mrs. Marie-Louise Bresson! We wish her a good health and a long life!